On Oct 16, World Food Day 2025 and China’s National Food Security Publicity Week was held at Renmin University of China.

Liu Huanxin, head of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, noted that since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, China’s food security sector has achieved historic accomplishments. The country’s overall grain production capacity has continued to grow, significant progress has been made in reducing losses and waste across the entire grain supply chain, and coordinated capabilities covering production, procurement, storage, processing, and distribution have been steadily strengthened. China has achieved basic self-sufficiency in cereals and absolute security in staple foods. 

Xia Linmao, executive vice mayor of Beijing, stated that the city has thoroughly implemented the Food Security Law, optimized grain reserves and supply mechanisms, and fully ensured local grain reserve requirements. By leveraging the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, Beijing is building a broader regional emergency grain supply system, while coordinating grain procurement and market regulation to maintain stable grain and edible oil markets.

Lin Shangli emphasized that RUC will remain grounded in China’s practice, focus on frontier issues in national food security to advance theoretical innovation and policy research, and seize opportunities brought by technological transformation to accelerate breakthroughs in core technologies and the application of research results, striving to make new and greater contributions to safeguarding national food security and promoting global sustainable development.

Carlos Aldeco, representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in China, noted that since its establishment 80 years ago, the FAO has supported countries and communities worldwide in increasing food production and improving nutrition. Today, amid escalating challenges such as regional conflicts, frequent extreme weather events, and growing food loss and waste, the FAO’s mission is more relevant and critical than ever before.